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Journal of Timely Topics in Clinical Immunology | Volume 2
July 26-28, 2018 | Moscow, Russia Immunology
11th Annual Congress on
Role of Institute of Allergy and Clinical Immunology of Bangladesh (IACIB) for elimination of Filariasis
and control of other neglected tropical diseases in Bangladesh
Moazzem Hossain
IACIB, Bangladesh
Bangladesh- a developing country with 170 million population
in 64 districts, harbors all Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
asLymphaticFilariasis (LF), Rabies, Leishmaniasis, Soil Transmitted
Helminthiases (STH), Dengue, Malaria, Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS,
Echinococcosis, Thalassaemia (Genetic disorder) etc throughout
the country. IACIB was established in 1995 as a registered NGO.
From its inception it has been working on all NTDs with special
emphasis on LF. IACIB established two hospitals for LF and one
“Thalassaemia Hospital and Institute”, all these three are the
ONLY hospitals of this kind in the country and Globally as well
for LF. Through these charitable hospitals the organization has
been providing low cost services to the neglected poor people
of the country, conducting various researches on NTDs. Fulbright
fellow from USA, students from Japan, Australia, Japan Overseas
Cooperation Volunteers (JOCVs) etc are involved in various
practical training, research on NTDs etc as a part of their master’s
degree, MPH, PhD and the local researchers are also involved
with different NTDs activities of IACIB. Only IACIB convinced and
proposed the Ministry of Health (MOH) to start and develop all
the separate projects/ programs of NTDs starting from LF in 2000
and gradually other projects under MOH. IACIB is involved with
different control programs of MOH through Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU). There was such tremendous success of
NTDs control activities of MOH and IACIB that LF was declared
eliminated in 2011, death rate of Malaria reduced from 700
yearly in 2006 to near 20 yearly now, death rate of Dengue
yearly from 93 since 2000 reduced to 0 (Zero) since 2007 and
similarly other NTDs as Leishmaniasis etc. Hon’ble PrimeMinister
of Bangladesh HE Sheikh Hasina was awarded by WHO in 2015
for tremendous success of control of communicable NTDs in
Bangladesh, which was a great unparallel contribution of IACIB.
IACIB for the first time organized the International conference
on NTDs and Climate Change. Ministry of Social Welfare,
Government of Bangladesh supported IACIB to establish one
Hospital for NTDs. Now IACIB invites all to come forward for
support for poor Thalassaemia patients, morbidity control of
otherNTDs, emergingand re-emergingdiseases and researchetc.
Speaker Biography
Moazzem Hossain, founder and chairman of IACIB, is a specialist in Microbiology,
Immunology & Biotechnology with long experience in operation of Govt. & NGO
projects. He worked in Directorate General of Health Service, Ministry of Health &
Family Welfare as Director Disease Control for received the ‘Vestergaard
Frandsen Award 2011’ from the National Academy of Vectors and Vector Borne
Diseases, India for the South East Asian region for his outstanding contributions in the
field of communicable diseases control in Bangladesh.
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